Quotes about Personal Growth

The acting world is a humbling experience, I find.

Some people have nothing but experience.

The experience of getting my Kriya, which is the meditation process that I do, was very powerful for me - though, as I explain in the book, I was really suspect of that kind of thing.

Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.

The greatest thing an actor can experience is discovery. The greatest thing an artist can walk away with is to learn something about themselves and the world and this was one of those.

Experience is an excellent doctor, though he never had a diploma.

I try to learn from every experience, good or bad.

Experience is the opposite of education.

Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something.

Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class.

Directing was a transformative experience for me, one that I really enjoyed.

If something brilliant comes along but I really feel like it's too old for me - that I'm not gonna have the experience it takes - I'm not gonna do it. Even if it's "a big mistake for my career".

I think my experience is going to make a difference, but I also think that my speed and power are going to make a bigger difference.

My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis.

Your self is yours to integrate. To integrate your self you need to be, in the midst of your experience, a little bit like your own being.

Whenever I have a bad performance, I look at it as a learning experience.

I had not yet acquired the experience which gives modesty.

My soul is my guru; my experience is my guru.

Honestly every day had huge challenges. I remember one day coming home and running a bath and going, "You don't know how to act, do you?" It was the most humbling experience ever.

Experience is necessary for us to grow.

I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever.

With Submarine, when I came out of school, people were so lovely and supportive. And you don't get that experience very often. It felt like a family on-set. So Submarine changed so much for me.

Fortunately I am a mentally strong person and believe I will learn from the experience and continue to improve as a player and person because of it. (on breaking his leg)

The fact that I'd gone through my own transition as governor of Indiana and had been informed by that experience, I think was an asset.